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Introduction to Fiddle with Amelia Rose Slobogean
This workshop features a 30 minute presentation introducing students to the fiddle and the many different styles of music you can play on it. This includes demonstrations of tunes from different countries and a brief history of Amelia’s background and playing styles. Excerpts from popular songs and humour are also added in to keep students engaged.
Following the presentation, Amelia can take groups of 2 - 3 students for a hands-on lesson on how to play the fiddle (20-30 minutes per group). In this time, students learn how to hold the fiddle and bow, how to get a good sound, and learn to play a simple tune. The goal is to introduce students to the instrument and provide a hands-on learning opportunity with an experienced fiddler …all while having lots of fun.
Grade Suitability:
1-12
Maximum Class Size:
20 students
Time Required:
30 minute presentation/20-30 minutes for each small group tutorial/15 prep per 1 hour of class time.
Material Required:
3 violins (provided by artist)
Material Cost:
$75/day
Language of Instruction:
English
Communities:
Carcross, Carmacks, Dawson City, Faro, Haines Junction, Mayo, Old Crow, Pelly Crossing, Ross River, Teslin. Watson Lake, Whitehorse.
Amelia Rose Slobogean
Amelia is a classically trained fiddle player with 10 years of teaching experience and 25 years of performing experience. She is the main instructor for fiddle programs in Teslin and Dawson City, and has also worked in the community of Old Crow. She teaches a variety of fiddle styles with an emphasis on proper technique and posture.
Amelia believes every child should have the opportunity to play an instrument and has developed a strong teaching method for beginners that is accessible and fun for everyone.
In addition to working in schools and teaching privately, she has also facilitated fiddle workshops at festivals such as Moosehide Gathering and the Kluane Mountain Bluegrass Festival.
Contact: 867-336-3119
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Education at the Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery
The Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery brings learning to life by deepening young peoples’ understanding of their environment, history and culture, thus impacting their own personal development. We aim to nurture the next generation of artists by introducing tools to foster visual literacy, encouraging students to find pleasure and meaning in art and to think critically about the array of visual images that surround them.
Exhibition Guide & Curriculum-based Tours
Learning through the arts has never been more exciting! Open the eyes of your students with one of our six custom workshops and tours. Our workshops and tours are specially designed for youth to enhance critical thinking and discussion skills. Free buses to and from the gallery sponsored by the City of Whitehorse.
Topics include: Art of Discovery, Elements of Art, Yukon Artists, Social Statement, the White Glove Tour, and Art Careers/Behind the Scenes.Check out the Online School Guide: http://www.yukonartscentre.com/programs
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Calling all youth artists! The Yukon Electrical Youth Gallery displays the works of young Yukon artists in a professional setting. Exhibitions are open to individuals, groups or classes. Please book in advance. The Yukon Electrical Youth Gallery is presented by presented by Yukon Electrical an ATCO Company.
Free Family Art Classes – Kids Kreate
Get messy, have fun and learn about art at our monthly Kids Kreate art classes. Every Kids Kreate activity is specially tailored to respond to the materials and methods featured in our current exhibition. This family-friendly event runs one Sunday per month between September and April from 1–4 pm. Kids Kreate is presented by Yukon Electrical an ATCO Company.
Kids Kreate schedule is available online at http://www.yukonartscentre.com/programs.
There are many different ways to access educational activities at the Yukon Arts Centre in addition to guided tours.
Art Library
The Yukon Arts Centre Gallery Library contains catalogues, reference books and videos on local, national and international contemporary art. The Yukon Arts Centre and
Arts Underground/Yukon Art Society have partnered to bring this collection to the public, with YAC donating its art library to the resource room at Arts Underground. The art library can be accessed at Arts Underground, 305 Wood Street Whitehorse, YT Y1A 2E7.
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Videos
The Yukon Arts Centre Video Series brings you behind the scenes with artist interviews, public talks and all the latest news related to upcoming shows.
Please check out our blog for current and archived podcasts at http://yukonartscentre.com/blog/category/art_gallery/.
Virtual Tour of the Permanent Art Collection
The Yukon Arts Centre Public Art Gallery has a diverse collection that rarely gets seen. Unfortunately, our facility does not have a permanent space for display of the collection, and the art works spend most of their time hidden away from public view. To make these artworks more accessible to the public, the Yukon Arts Centre has created a online
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Explore the collection at http://yukonartscentre.com/gallery/our_collection/
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- Art Journaling with Amber Church
- Art projects with Marie-Hélène Comeau - Land Art or Earth Art
- Art projects with Marie-Hélène Comeau - Painting
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- Bark Carving – Magic Houses with Peter Kazda
- Bark Carving – Necklaces with Peter Kazda
- Basic Bead Stringing with Sheila Alexandrovitch
- Basic Jewelry Making for High School Students with Shiela Alexandrovich
- Beginning Pottery—pinch pots can be made into anything! with Joann Vriend
- Bogolan t-shirts with Ssasi
- Bold, Beautiful Wildlife Paintings with Cass Collins
- Capturing the Yukon Landscape with Jackie Irvine
- Cast a Kid with Michel Gignac
- Chewed Paper (papier mâché) Sculptures with Michel Gignac
- Clay Slab Construction with Joann Vriend
- Collage and Mixed Media with Meshell Melvin
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- Create a Landscape Painting with Jay Hambleton
- Create Your Own Manga with Amber Church
- Creating a Mini Northern Lights Landscape with Maya Rosenberg
- Creating Small Sun Catchers with Cora Lee Rideout
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- Drawing and Painting Portraits with Mary Caesar
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- Drawing the Human Figure with Meshell Melvin
- Drawing with Meshell Melvin
- Dust ‘til Done with Patty Jackson
- Exploring Collage with Amber Church
- Exploring Colour with Paint - Christine Prescott
- Exploring Colours and Textures in Nature with Maya Rosenberg
- Exploring Texture and Colour with Acrylic Paint - Amber Church
- Farm Felting Visit with Shiela Alexandrovich
- Fine Art Cards - Professionally Printed with Cass Collins
- Fine Craftmaking with Handmade Paper, Helen O’Connor
- Frame Loom Weaving with Vanessa Ægirsdóttir
- Glass Blowing - Hot Glass Education Workshops with Lumel Studios
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- InnerVibe Mural - Youth of Today Society
- Intro to Silversmithing with Shelley MacDonald
- Introduction to Bookbinding with Owen Williams
- Introduction to Calligraphy with Owen Williams
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- Introduction to Papermaking with Helen O’Connor
- Introduction to Weaving with Vanessa Ægirsdóttir
- Japanese Wood Block Printing with Rhoda Merkel
- Knitting with Sophie Jessome
- LED-eyed Creatures! with Michel Gignac
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- Printmaking – Linocuts with Meshell Melvin
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- African Dance with Ssasi
- African Drumming with Ssasi
- Around the World with Carole Mullin
- Ballroom Dancing with Audrey Percheron
- Band Support with All-City Band
- Beginner Ottawa Valley & Cape Breton Step Dancing with Ashlyne Bigg
- Bhangra Dance Fitness Workshop with Gurdeep Pandher
- Brass Wind Instrument Demonstration with Bill Barrick
- Breakdancing with Riley Simpson-Fowler
- Broadcast Radio Basics with Bill Polonsky
- Choir 101 with Barbara Chamberlin
- Circus Skills with Claire Ness
- Coaching Students for a Musical Performance
- Contemporary Dance/Composition Workshop with Monique Romeiko
- Creative Vocal Workshop with Scott Maynard
- Dance Nia Technique with Susie Anne Bartsch
- Dance Programs with Mellisa Murray
- Dance with Andrea Simpson-Fowler
- Dance with Christina Buckle
- Dance with Rebecca Reynolds
- Dance; hip hop, break dancing, jazz, ballet, modern, street jazz, contemporary, etc.
- Design your Music Class with Barbara Chamberlin
- Dramatize a First Nation Story with Rhoda Merkel
- Fight Against Stage Fright with Michel Gignac
- Find Your Voice with Lianne Cranfield
- Folk Dancing Around the World with Annie Avery
- Group Choral Blending and Breathing with Jillian Durham
- Guitar with Thomas Kramer
- Immersive games and improvisations (Jeux immersifs et improvisations) with Véronique Lachance
- Improv with George Maratos
- Improv with Melisa Devost
- Intro to Djembe Drums
- Intro to Marimba
- Introduction to Creative Writing with Patti Flather
- Introduction to Fiddle with Amelia Rose Slobogean
- Introduction to Fitzmaurice Voicework® with Melisa Devost
- Introduction to Playwriting – Monologues with Patti Flather
- Introduction to Playwriting: Two-Person Scenes with Patti Flather
- Introduction to the Drum Set
- Introductory Trumpet Seminar with Bill Barrick
- iPod Touch, Iphone and iPad Video and Stop motion Production Workshop with Simon D’Amours
- Kids Can Can Class! with Rebecca Reynolds and Kate Fitzgerald
- Learn to Play the Violin /Fiddle with Katie Avery
- Make a Scene with Melisa Devost
- Movement Creation Workshop with Lea Roy
- Music Games with Numbers-Annie Avery
- Music Teacher Aide with Bill Barrick
- Music with Paul Bergman
- Music ’n Motion: Early Childhood Music Education with Lianne Cranfield
- Percussion Horizons
- Piano Crash Course
- Putting on a Play with Susie Anne Bartsch
- Rock Band with Melisa Devost
- School Songwriting Workshop with Steve Slade
- Scottish Country Dancing
- SING! with Melisa Devost
- Songspinning with The Blue Warblers - Kim Beggs & Natalie Edelson
- Songwriting 101 with Barbara Chamberlin
- Songwriting and Recording with Rebecca Law
- Songwriting for the Very Young with Michael Brooks
- Songwriting Program with Claire Ness
- Songwriting with Kim Beggs
- Songwriting with Melisa Devost
- Songwriting with Sarah MacDougall
- Songwriting, Performance & Instrument Petting Zoo with Kim Beggs
- Sound Stories with Lianne Cranfield
- Stop-Motion Film with Michel Gignac
- Storytelling with Nicole Bauberger
- Storytelling with Rhoda Merkel
- Teacher Driven Music Units with Annie Avery
- The 2017 Culture Camp Story is….RAVEN - the Creation Creator with Rhoda Merkel
- The Art of Perfect Practice
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- Voice 101 with Barbara Chamberlin
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- First Nation Clans with Rhoda Merkel
- Indigenous Theatre Arts with Doris John
- Introduction to Beading with Rhoda Merkel
- Mini Button Blankets with Rhoda Merkel
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- Tell Your Own Totem Story with Rhoda Merkel
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Artist Talks
Extended Projects
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- Learning Through Designs - Paint a Mural with Ali Khodakarami
- Mini Mural Project, Flowers - Nicole Bauberger
- Mural Painting with Helen O’Connor
- Mural Painting with Maya Rosenberg
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- Podcasting Basics with Bill Polonsky
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